peefyn This is a documentary similar to "An Inconvinient Truth", where a (former) politician has a message he feels it is important to convey, and he conveys it in a personal but professional way. I am not from the US, and I was not familiar with Robert Reich - but what a delight he is! The best parts of the movie is where he breaks down the economic crisis in a way that is easily understandable, and manages to do it non-condescending way. Some of the clips from his media appearances were also quite fun.The way they bring in personal stories from other Americans is nice and touching. It helped underline the points made by Reich. At the same time, when a movie has such a strong agenda as this, it's hard not to watch it without your shield up (and you shouldn't, really). I am all for people using the medium to convey something personal, but when it's politics, it sometimes makes me feel a bit uneasy, as I know I am being "worked on". But still, from what I've read about Reich after seeing this movie, it seems to ultimately be a rather trustworthy account of what happened, and what can be done to stop it.That said, as a non-American, I often felt that this movie was not meant for me. I was not one of the people the documentary tries to convince. Obviously most of what is said is true and relevant globally - so it was not a waste for me to see it. But it still did not hit the mark, as I did feel "alienated" (too strong a word, maybe) at times.

Danny Blankenship The film "Inequality for All" is thought provoking and revealing with truth that shows and proves that being a middle class American is becoming harder and harder as the gap of when it comes to incomes and keeping up with the rich is no contest. As most Americans can relate to it as it's harder and harder with the rising cost of stuff to keep money in your pocket from payday to payday as many stated in interviews during this picture that they don't even have much money in their own bank accounts! Narrated and done by Robert Reich the man who was a former U.S. Labor secretary and Clinton cabinet member who's now a professor and best selling author tells it like it is in terms of America's widening income gap upon the middle class. This film is well done thru Reich's speech among his class and with interviews from the middle class and even rich people while showing data, graphs, charts, figures and stats to support how the income gap has came over the years. And footage is shown to support this involving political leaders and wall street choices. Robert even gives his thoughts which is supported with footage as to the cause of the decline of middle incomes and just to name a few they include the decline of labor unions, and how the world of technology has exploded, plus as rich people say they don't spend a lot of money and as shown and said were in a world of outsourcing and global trade that hurts the middle guy. And with politics and elections money is the name of the game the rich guys have the final say as with a torched democracy the middle people have no say. And education costs have risen and the average man can't make the cost to get educated. Overall this film stands up and makes a case for the middle people as Robert proves they are on the short end of the stick as the average American knows the income gap inequality is our nation's biggest problem as the rich get richer.

gigione80 This documentary is very well conceived and shot. It explains very simply how the middle class just impoverished all of a sudden and how dangerous this is for an economy. The author also explains the impact of Reaganism, Thatcherism and, generally, the Chicago boys' theories on contemporary societies. This movie is also for all of those who think that we are just experiencing a temporary crisis. This is not a crisis and we have already understood that:the economy has been gradually shifting from a manufacturing one to a service economy with lower hourly wages, less benefits, part-time hours and more importantly even less chance to organize unions than before. Please watch it, you will not regret it at all!

cricket crockett . . . on solutions for the "problem" of economic inequality he "proves" to his classroom at the University of California--Berkeley. With seemingly half of INEQUALITY FOR ALL filmed directly in his lecture hall, this film is more static than even Al Gore's Oscar-winning polemic against global warming. Reich's basic message is that the top 1% of earners have "gamed the system" since 1978, when the real wages of middle-class America flat-lined. He says this will be bad even for the wealthy in the long term, since consumerism now constitutes 70 percent of the U.S. economy. Evidently, he thinks rich people are as dumb as the dragon Smaug in THE HOBBIT, spending only a fraction of the money they've siphoned from the middle-class through automation and globalization, while hoarding the rest and indirectly raising living standards in the developing countries to which the American jobs of yesteryear have been outsourced. As the rich sit on their mounds of inert gold (see THE HOBBIT trailer), the middle-class now lacks the money to consume after playing the last three cards in their hands (i.e., having moms work, taking second jobs and more overtime, plus maxing out credit cards, home equity loans, and college debt). But the wealthy have hired the U.S. Supreme court, the Republican Party, and hundreds of skilled propagandists starting with Rush Limbaugh (who always pronounces Robert's surname "Reisssssssssch") to further stack the deck toward an ultimate goal of getting 99% of America's wealth into the golden mounds of the 1%. Well, let me point out the main fallacy in the Reich lecture. He never mentions guns, or Thomas Jefferson's slogan that the Tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots every 87 (="four score and seven") years. If Reich is so anti-Second Amendment, it is exceedingly strange that he doesn't realize the current 300 million-gun private arsenal of us citizens would be AT LEAST 600 million barrels strong today if only the middle-class had more money! Does he want more gold for the rich, or more guns for the poor? Even though Mr. Reich says his one-time childhood protector later went down South UNARMED and got tortured, shot dead, and buried in an earthen dam in Mississippi in 1964, he cannot wrap his mind around this main dilemma facing America today. (Please don't forget to support your local chapter of B.A.N.G.S.--Broke Americans Need Gun Stamps--if you want credible change!)